antiques & garden show 2010

     Scheduled February 11-13 at the Nashville Convention Center is the 20th annual Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville. Each year it has brought together nationally and internationally renowned experts and exhibitors in the fields of antiques, decorative arts, and landscape design.
This year’s show, carrying the theme The Shape of Things to Come, will explore the diversity of shapes and patterns found in traditional and contemporary design.

     “This year’s show will not only showcase a variety of beautiful antiques and gardens from across the country, but will encourage fresh ideas and classic traditions, helping attendees discover inspirations for their own home and gardening projects,” says Carolyn Hannon co-chair of The 2010 Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville.

     The show’s featured lecturers are among the leading voices on gardening and historic White House decorator Michael S. Smith; Her Grace, The Duchess of Northumberland, who transformed The Alnwick Garden, and award-winning gardener Ryan Gainey. “We are thrilled to launch our 20th annual event with some of the world’s leading voices in decorating and design,” says Donna Dalton, co-chair of the 2010 Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville.

     Hailed as one of the most prominent antique and garden shows in the country, the show offers over 150 antique and horticultural booths and landscaped gardens. For two decades, the show has drawn attendees from all over the country and abroad to view spectacular gardens, hear extraordinary lectures, and see and purchase rare and beautiful antiques.

     Antique booths will feature premier international and domestic dealers exhibiting stunning examples of porcelain, silver, jewelry, oriental rugs, paintings, and finely crafted furniture and lighting.

     Several exhibition gardens will be designed and implemented by Nashville’s leading landscape professionals to showcase the show theme.
This year's entry garden is designed by Ryan Gainey, an award-winning garden designer and author based in Decatur, Georgia. His entry garden for the show will incorporate this year’s theme with spectacularly shaped and patterned surroundings in a traditional yet contemporary design.
Additional garden spaces will also incorporate the theme and be scattered across the show floor.

     Always a favorite among show goers are the horticulture booths which feature architectural elements for the house and garden, exquisite garden related furnishings, orchids, unusual plant material, and whimsical accessories for the home.

     Lecturers at this year’s show include Michael S. Smith, decorator of The White House and work for other clients including Cindy Crawford, Steven Spielburg, and Dustin Hoffman. His reputation is for balancing the glamorous, functional, modern, and classics.  Her Grace, The Duchess of Northumberland, is the visionary behind the Alnwick Garden in Northumberland, one of the most exciting contemporary gardens developed in the last century. It is one of the most visited horticulture attractions in Europe.

     The Antiques & Garden Show benefits the Exchange Club Charities, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to fundraising with a focus on children, and for operation and continual preservation of and Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art.

     For more information call 615/ 352-9064 or visit www.antiques andgardenshow.com.

Antiques & Garden Show
dates:   February 11-13
location:  Nashville Convention Center
hours:
     Thursday  10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
     Friday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
     Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
CLOSED SUNDAY
admission: $15 at the gate
      $10 in advance